IPOH (Bernama): The Perak Immigration Department has crippled a human-trafficking syndicate that has been smuggling Indian nationals into Europe for the last 10 years. He added that the role of the police personnel would be to arrange for transportation to get the Indians nationals across the border. Kamalludin said each of the Indian nationals would have to pay up to RM5,000 to be smuggled into Thailand before heading on to Europe. He said in the operations, the Immigration Department seized cash amounting to RM13,750, several handphones, two motorcycles and three cars. All the detainees are being investigated under various immigration laws including the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007.

Source: The Star May 24, 2019 03:45 UTC